[Python-Dev] Python 2.3 patch cut-off date

Michael Gilfix mgilfix@eecs.tufts.edu
Thu, 9 May 2002 09:37:19 -0400


  Sorry if this is redundant or a stupid question - but where can we
find out about the patch deadline? Or did I miss a thread?  Sadly, I
need to finish exams before I can finish mine.

              -- Mike

On Thu, May 09 @ 08:43, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > The schedule is slipping; we're likely to switch to a more
> > > goal-oriented (as opposed to deadline-oriented) approach.
> > 
> > OK, but that makes planning by patch submitters more challenging.
> 
> That's life.  We're all doing this part-time: even PythonLabs has to
> do customer work to keep Zope Corp pushing forward.  I realize that
> it's helpful for some developers to have a hard deadline, and as we
> get closer to folfilling our goals we should set ourselves some, but
> I'd rather slip a schedule than release shoddy work.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
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